STICK WITH IT!

Stick with it! 
Stick with it!! 
Stick with it!!!

These are the words ringing in my ears all day... It's been very hard today and the best way to describe it would be similar to one who keeps trying to mount a horse unsuccessfully... With each failed attempt his/her strength diminishes and it's so hard to 'keep it together'.  With each day that passes, another failed attempt, and it gets harder to commit.

From experience I can tell you, once you get back on that horse it's so easy, and truly worth every drop of sweat you felt trying to get back up there in the first place. I've kept a picture of this image in my head today, telling myself (literally) to focus and stick with it, imagining that new bathing suit, that great maxi dress!!!

It's 6pm now and it's starting to feel good.. really good, but I know I'm not 'out of the woods' yet.  I've done this so many times, then, at the last minute, (somehow) a piece of "anything" finds its way into my mouth... So I'm not calling victory yet; for today, just a few more hours will do the job, and tomorrow onto day 2.

It usually takes (in this program) about 4 to 5 days to get our bodies in FAT BURNING mode, so I've got a long 'rest of the week' ahead of me, and it will not be easy.  For now though, I'm 'sticking with it'...